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Since Domino's going to be joining the permanent cast of Brian Wood's X-Men soon, I thought I'd post something from 2003's Domino, by Joe Pruett and Brian Stelfreeze.

This comes from that period where it's pretty clear that Marvel was starting to take things from other media, and infuse it into comics. You know how the old Elsa Bloodstone was basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the Marvel U? This is Marvel's The Bourne Identity. They even go so far as to lay the title page out like film credits.

The basic set-up for the series, is that Domino is attempting to find information on her origins. She funds her search through doing various odd-jobs, with her handler/mentor/love interest Jonathan playing Oracle to her Black Canary. Unfortunately, there's some friction due to their differing approaches; he's by the books, she's a loose cannon, etc. Additionally, her luck-based powers have made her increasingly reckless, endangering both her, and the important work she's doing.

Spoiler:

See? Just like Oracle!

See that lamp in the last panel? The next page is spent beating those ninjas with that lamp.

And later, she takes on some black-ops military guys, while not even wearing shoes. Because that's how she rolls.

It's not a revolutionary comic by any means, but like the action movies it emulates, it's a fun romp. There's ninjas, excellent fight choreography from Stelfreeze, and a spunky, take-no-shit protagonist at the center of it. If you can find it in your store's back issue bins, check it out.

Since Domino's going to be joining the permanent cast of Brian Wood's X-Men soon, I thought I'd post something from 2003's Domino, by Joe Pruett and Brian Stelfreeze.

This comes from that period where it's pretty clear that Marvel was starting to take things from other media, and infuse it into comics. You know how the old Elsa Bloodstone was basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the Marvel U? This is Marvel's The Bourne Identity. They even go so far as to lay the title page out like film credits.

The basic set-up for the series, is that Domino is attempting to find information on her origins. She funds her search through doing various odd-jobs, with her handler/mentor/love interest Jonathan playing Oracle to her Black Canary. Unfortunately, there's some friction due to their differing approaches; he's by the books, she's a loose cannon, etc. Additionally, her luck-based powers have made her increasingly reckless, endangering both her, and the important work she's doing.

Spoiler:

See? Just like Oracle!

See that lamp in the last panel? The next page is spent beating those ninjas with that lamp.

And later, she takes on some black-ops military guys, while not even wearing shoes. Because that's how she rolls.

It's not a revolutionary comic by any means, but like the action movies it emulates, it's a fun romp. There's ninjas, excellent fight choreography from Stelfreeze, and a spunky, take-no-shit protagonist at the center of it. If you can find it in your store's back issue bins, check it out.

How was the Elsa Bloodstone thing? Was it set in high school like Buffy, or was she a wandering monster hunter like in Nextwave?

How was the Elsa Bloodstone thing? Was it set in high school like Buffy, or was she a wandering monster hunter like in Nextwave?

Honestly, I've never read it. Been meaning to see if I could find it, though.

In the meantime, here's something from Guy Gardner #4, which opens with this:

Real quick, let me just point out that Guy's wearing a fur coat, over a leather jacket.

Okay, moving on.

In the previous issues, Guy was using Sinestro's old ring, only to have it run out of juice, and realize he didn't know how to recharge it, as the instructions were in Korugarian. So, he spends the entirety of issue three just beating up a giant, alien thug in the soundless vacuum of space, ending the issue with a line of the universe's most wanted, all queued up to take a shot at him.

This leads to him working for a group of knockoff Guardians of the Universe, who also happen to wear elevator shoes.

Spoiler:

That's right, Guy Gardner didn't just bring the bowl cut back, he brought it to space.

Incidentally, all this is going on right after Superman was just selflessly beaten to death by Doomsday, and Guy Gardner had been pulped in the same fight. I mention this only because Guy refuses to wear the black armband marking Superman's death, because he doesn't want it to ruffle his fur coat.

I've said this before, but I'm really enjoying how smart and satirical this whole series is. Guy's not just some empty, cliche anti-hero. He's a jackass, but all his friends keep commenting on what a jackass he's being, even by Guy's standards. It's like he's been playing at being the macho jerk for so long, that he's become a caricature of himself.

At the same time, some actual characterization shines through, like his affection for General Glory.

And a rare DC comics panel. Darkseid would like to serve you a hateburger.

I have no idea where that's from. Maybe Mcdonalds decided to expand their brand through advertisement back in the day? Ronald isn't nearly as hardcore as Darkseid. Having Darkseid try to sell you a burger made from the flesh of children and undiluted raw hatred has to appeal to someone, I guess.

This is shortly before Ambush Bug deflates him. and an issue or two after he exposes Clark Kent and takes photos of Starfire removing her clothing. It was a fantastic mini series.

I guess there was kinda a climax with a cool down phase? But it was as much an end as The Dark Knight would have had if it ended with the Joker blowing up the Police Station and leaving in police cars.

The identity of Flamebird previously went to another hero in the Bat-family, Bette Kane.

Supergirl and Power Girl also took up the Nightwing and Flamebird mantles to protect the bottle city of Kandor during the One Year Later event.

Most recently General Zod's son, Chris Kent, and his girlfriend became Nightwing and Flamebird during the New Krypton storyline.

Spoil'd that quote for length.

The OCD completionist in me demands that I make a note here that the original Nightwing and Flamebird from the Silver Age were Superman and Jimmy Olsen, when they operated in the bottle city of Kandor (where Superman had no powers and was known commonly by his kryptonian name).

They were inspired by the old kryptonian myth, like @RobosAGoGo said, but patterned their methods off of Batman and Robin.

Of course, all of that is long out of continuity now, but wasn't when Dick first took up the Nightwing name back in the Wolfman Teen Titans run. Superman was a big part of Dick's life back then (the original World's Finest stories were still in-continuity then as well) so he took part of his inspiration from him.